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ATI Radeon X800 XL performance
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Posted by: Bendah
I have reason to believe my video card is not performing as well as it should. According to this chart, I should be getting upwards of 126 FPS in HL2 at 1024x768 resolution. I get maybe a constant 30-50, that's it. Is my video card underperforming?
Here's my setup.
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.2ghz
GPU: ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder X800 XL 256mb
RAM: 1gb
OS: WinXP
Soundcard: N/A
Posted by: goranpaa
Hi!
That seems a little low for that card yes. I would exspect at least over 60 - 65 fps on the low side in that game and at that resoloution.
But it could be due to several things. Fragged harddrive, lots of stuff running in the background in Windows, Spyware, videocard driver old and maybe too small amount of RAM?
Also, high quality settings will affect the fps.
Posted by: Bendah
I have taken a screenshot of the settings I use in CSS (HL2 engine), every setting is the setting recommended for my card. I get 40 - 50 FPS with these settings. It is quite horrible. You can see my FRAPS FPS marker in the top right-hand corner.
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/...ah/Settings.jpg
Posted by: goranpaa
Yeah, that does'nt seem very promising.
There are 2 ways to get better fps. Or one could say a combination of both.
1. Get a tweaked driver.
If you register at Twekrus. And download the "WarCat 7.1 Second Release ".
You get a driver with better image quality and better frame rates.
But uninstall your previous driver first. And use a driver cleaner, like "Driver Cleaner Professional" afterwards. Read the cleaners instructions carefully.
http://www.tweaksrus.com/index.php
Driver Cleaner Pro here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/...fessional.shtml
If you does'nt get a satisfactory result?
2. Download ATI Tray Tools, and overclock the card.
Try these settings:
GPU (Core) Speed: 398MHz and memory 984MHz
Or: GPU 441MHz and memory 1113MHz
Higher than that, will probably give artifacts ( I.e "snow" or strange lines across the screen). As this is the highest rate of oc a X800XL is known to manage problem free.
In ATI Tray Tools, there also is a setting to monitor temperatures, fan speed and FPS from inside the game. Use this after you oc'ed the card. If the card goes over 70C max when gaming. Lower the overclock.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=733
Posted by: rabidgecko
goranpaa i'll ask while on the subject, is there anything like that for Nvidia cards? i have a 6800 gs and i'm tryin to get the most out of it before i eventually get a dx10 vid card
Posted by: Bendah
I am getting WarCat 7.2 as it is available =0
Posted by: goranpaa
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Originally Posted by rabidgecko
goranpaa i'll ask while on the subject, is there anything like that for Nvidia cards? i have a 6800 gs and i'm tryin to get the most out of it before i eventually get a dx10 vid card
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Yes, several. But Riva Tuner, is probably the best.
You can overclock, and control the videocards fan speed and lots of other stuff for the Geforce and Radeon cards. But ATI Tray Tools is more useful for Radeon card owners.
And this is the only tweak tool, that allow you, just like ATI Tray Tools to monitor the temperature of the Geforce card from inside a game. And display the idle temp in the Windows tray. But of coarce, your Gefore card must be equipped with a temperature sensor . I.e the card, must be from FX 5700 and up. Radeon cards: 9600Pro and up.
This is how you enable the temp monitor:
1. Inside Riva T. Click the button that's under the list, where your videocards name is displayed.
2. Click the icon, with the magnifying glass.
3. Enable the red button in the lower left corner
4. Here you will see several graphs. Go to the bottom of the graph list.
Right click the "core temperature" graph. Choose "set up" from the list.
5. In the "set up" menue. Enable the "tray icon settings" and the "On screen display settings". And finally, "Run server". You must have your net connection open.
Finished.
You must enable "server" every time you wanna monitor the in game temp. But not the tray temp monitor. This, will open when Windows starts. And does'nt require a net connection.
Click the tab "settings" and check the box for "Start with windows".
Overclock settings and fan control.
Click the second button in the "main" menue. Then, click the icon with a videocard.
Riva Tuner here:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163
P.s. Riva T. is said to work with Vista too.
You could try the oc setting: 510 MHz core / gpu, and 1110 MHz on the memory for the 6800GS.
This should be a stable setting.
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